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Ignorance Is Not Bliss

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

M. Joycelyn Elders*
Affiliation:
University of Arkansas, USA
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Adolescent Sexuality and Public Policy
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Copyright © Association for Politics and the Life Sciences 

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